Email from 10.19.09

So we wake up about 6:30 go downstairs lay around for a bit and sometimes sing a song depending on how tired we are, then the four of us have prayer. We eat, shower then at 8:00 we have personal study, and you study whatever you want.

At 9:00 we have companion Study, sometimes we will role play, other times we will go through and read parts of preach my gospel, or translate some pamphlets, there are a lot of things we have done. At 10:00 the English Elders (Elder Nutt and Elder Fredrick) leave to go to appointments, while Elder Hamilton and I do some Language study for an hour, usually reading the Book of Mormon out loud. I can actually read really well I just can’t speak the language.

At 11:00 we head out to our appointments, we come back at 2:00 for lunch. At 3:00 we go back out until about 6:00 when a member will usually give us some dinner, we teach a lesson, commit, and leave. We go back out until 8:30-9:00, we go back to the house, plan for a half hour, then just hang around and have good time until 10:30-11:00 then we go to bed. That is my day.

The bike stays at the house I have used it once when I went on exchanges with another Elder. and me and Elder Nutt and maybe the other two will be biking early in the morning for some exercise.

I cut Elder Nutts Hair 2 days ago and he said I did an awesome job except for almost cutting one of his side burns off lol. Then he cut my hair today, and he made super low cut its not a buzz but its short and it feels good out here in the Florida weather.

We usually go shopping on p-days and I usually get just a lot of bread for sandwiches.

Daniel Sanchez probably won’t be getting baptized this week or this month, we just found out what his real problem was, and it is his family, who aren’t really for Mormons, and one of them is a Baptist preacher. So we think he is afraid of being disliked by his family. So yesterday I gave them the story of how dad joined the church. I did it in English cuz I can’t tell a story in Spanish I have enough trouble trying to not tell people i love their wives let alone telling a detailed story about dad... sigh, so Elder Hamilton translated for me.

Yesterday we were fed twice in just one hour after the other, and they wouldn’t stop giving us food. I felt like I was going to throw up, so when we were at our second dinner appointment, me and Elder Hamilton started pocketing our food, because we couldn’t eat any more.

Well now that I have been out here for almost a month, Elder Hamilton has me Teaching some lessons mostly by myself, it gets hard at times but, I get through them. We found out that one of the members in our ward has three children that haven’t been baptized. So we taught them all the lessons, and all of them want to be baptized except one of the kids is in a gang and does some wrong stuff. I told him straight out he needs to change. He said he would. then I asked him how he would change, then he made a plan sort of on how to change.

We met an older couple who is about 80, both of them, and they called in to receive a free restoration dvd. They talk about the most random things and they talk all the time, it is so hard to keep them on track. The wife (we think) wants to be baptized but the husband told us "I was born Catholic. and I’m going to die catholic" lol, but he still wants us over kinda weird huh.

We receive Referrals by members usually but occasionally we receive one by text on our phone, saying that this person wants a free something, So we go over there and give it to them, and usually put in a quick restoration lesson.

We also live in Town House with another set of missionaries. Here is a pic of my comp and the other companions. (His comp is the one sitting on the desk)